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Loved every minute of it until the last 5 minutes, where they went so far away from the original story line, it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke

by awjr 9y ago

Loved every minute of it until the last 5 minutes, where they went so far away from the original story line, it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside.

throwawaysw 9y ago
> it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside. That sounds like a better movie tbh
- Cthulhu_ 9y ago
  Well it is the plot of the prequels...
  - the_af 9y ago
    ...which were pretty bad. So we can rule out this idea! :)
    - qbrass 9y ago
      That's not why they were bad. They built up decades of expectations and not only dropped the ball, but threw it to the ground and decided to write what sells toys instead.
      - the_af 9y ago
        Agreed, my comment was tongue in cheek. But at least we agree the prequels were terrible!
Tharkun 9y ago
Only the last 5 minutes? Did we watch the same movie? The plot, to me, looked like it was written by someone who watched the original while drunk.
- partisan 9y ago
  I remember thinking that whoever made this movie must have hated the original movie. I guess it is a gamble the director has to take: to be remembered as a great director, you can't simply remake movies verbatim. You have to put your spin on it and hope people think you made something greater than the original. The movie did not capture the feeling of the original movie nor did it seem convincing as a future reality the way the original does. Btw, hologram ads featured in a COD Advanced Warfare Tokyo map a few years ago. Given the color scheme of the movie and that of the map, I would not be surprised if the map was a bit of inspiration for the movie's designers.
  - saiya-jin 9y ago
    I don't mind if something is omitted ie for time reasons (although this is usually issue with book -> movie, not anime -> movie). I have though problem with changing perfectly working parts of story for something else, which is always a lost battle. Some personal examples from the movie - the fight with garbagemen, the moment when one of them used special AP ammo to destroy Section 9 truck. It could have been such a cool moment. I still recall it from anime after 16 years. Or the fight with spider tank, its defeat by Batou. Why Aramaki kept talking in japanese and everybody else in english - if they used some automatic brain translators, they could have spent 15 seconds of story explaining this, ie show some immigrants speaking their own language.
kakarot 9y ago
The entire plot was absolute crap, but to be fair this isn't the first time we've seen Major defect and become an enemy of her country.
njharman 9y ago
Isn't that what Luke does? Later, like in the movies coming out now. I thought in the EU, he ends the Jedi Order and merges the teaching of Light and Dark into one discipline. but I'm no SWexpert.

by awjr 9y ago

Loved every minute of it until the last 5 minutes, where they went so far away from the original story line, it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside.

throwawaysw 9y ago

> it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside. That sounds like a better movie tbh

Cthulhu_ 9y ago
Well it is the plot of the prequels...
- the_af 9y ago
  ...which were pretty bad. So we can rule out this idea! :)
  - qbrass 9y ago
    That's not why they were bad. They built up decades of expectations and not only dropped the ball, but threw it to the ground and decided to write what sells toys instead.
    - the_af 9y ago
      Agreed, my comment was tongue in cheek. But at least we agree the prequels were terrible!

Tharkun 9y ago

Only the last 5 minutes? Did we watch the same movie? The plot, to me, looked like it was written by someone who watched the original while drunk.

partisan 9y ago
I remember thinking that whoever made this movie must have hated the original movie. I guess it is a gamble the director has to take: to be remembered as a great director, you can't simply remake movies verbatim. You have to put your spin on it and hope people think you made something greater than the original. The movie did not capture the feeling of the original movie nor did it seem convincing as a future reality the way the original does. Btw, hologram ads featured in a COD Advanced Warfare Tokyo map a few years ago. Given the color scheme of the movie and that of the map, I would not be surprised if the map was a bit of inspiration for the movie's designers.
- saiya-jin 9y ago
  I don't mind if something is omitted ie for time reasons (although this is usually issue with book -> movie, not anime -> movie). I have though problem with changing perfectly working parts of story for something else, which is always a lost battle. Some personal examples from the movie - the fight with garbagemen, the moment when one of them used special AP ammo to destroy Section 9 truck. It could have been such a cool moment. I still recall it from anime after 16 years. Or the fight with spider tank, its defeat by Batou. Why Aramaki kept talking in japanese and everybody else in english - if they used some automatic brain translators, they could have spent 15 seconds of story explaining this, ie show some immigrants speaking their own language.

kakarot 9y ago

The entire plot was absolute crap, but to be fair this isn't the first time we've seen Major defect and become an enemy of her country.

njharman 9y ago

Isn't that what Luke does? Later, like in the movies coming out now. I thought in the EU, he ends the Jedi Order and merges the teaching of Light and Dark into one discipline. but I'm no SWexpert.